The best universities in South Africa for law, finance, and economics
Updated | By Breakfast with Martin Bester
Are you a proud graduate interested in knowing how your university fares in relation to others? Check out the statistics below!

You can now discover which universities around the world are the best for your chosen subject with the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021.
The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021 covers a total of 51 disciplines, grouped into five broad subject areas.
The rankings are compiled every year to help prospective students identify the leading universities in a particular subject.
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Four components are used to rank universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021:
- Academic reputation
- Employer reputation
- Research citations per paper
- H-index
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South African universities are placed within the top 400 universities and University of Pretoria is ranked 101 – 150 for Accounting and Finance!



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